Kirsten Dunst Quotes

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.

If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

I love pop music... some hip hop... not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was my first concert I went to. I love her.

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

Barack Obama embraced hip-hop, man. That's the way he got through to kids.

You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don't let you listen to it - you gotta sneak into a car to listen to this guy rap. He changed my whole life, my whole perspective on music, so to more or less co-sign something that I've done is the ultimate childhood goal.

I didn't think nobody knew I listened to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

I used to love the Wu-Tang Clan. They took my school by storm, by which I mean the three kids in my year who listened to hip-hop. I skipped lectures to go and buy their second album, 'Forever', and then rushed home to listen to it.

Early on in my life, I got two older brothers; we used to listen to Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne.

One of my best friends is quite into rap, and I'm always being introduced to music by him.

My kids listen to rap, so I try to keep up with as much as I can.

I grew up around it. That was what my friends were listening to - some of my closest friends are big hip-hop fans.

When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with 'Lean Back.'

I kinda gave my childhood to hip-hop, literally. I didn't go to parties in high school. All I did - well, I was DJing parties in high school.

Dre is someone I've looked up to since 1985 when he came to my college and performed with The Wrecking Crew.

I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boyz.

N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.